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Outlook.com, log in (obviously), select skydrive from the dropdown in the top right. Create an office document. Edit it, etc.

This should help you with your other question

Foursquare is a mobile app that has a database of interesting and sometimes not interesting landmarks. When your at a location in it's database, you can check in and you are awarded points for doing so. If you have the most check-ins at a place out of anybody over some period (two months I think), you become the Mayor of that location and you get extra points for this.

Sometimes they have promo offers for certain check ins. e.g. check in at Burger King and there might be 10% off your next meal.

Or, assuming Slashcode provides its admins with absolutely no search capabilities, there's this fancy new search engine thing that's even better than Altavista!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=slashdot+ny+times+data+centers

That's next year. This year it's its Eth birthday. Or its 1111th birthday if you like binary.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=15+in+hex

So not to sound snippy, but lets see some links to these devices?

Umm... let me google that for you

Whoosh.

I don't remember seeing Microsoft asking to ban all Google/Motorola devices. You have a URL handy?

Sure, why not.

Also, I don't remember Amazon ever marketing the Kindle Fire as an Android device, so I don't know why you would say that it fragments the Android market.

Yes, not being marketed as "Android compatible" is the reason Google doesn't push at Amazon.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=0.000000032+parsecs+per+leap+year+to+mph

Here, just for you :)

>>>I would really like to see a source for this

Here ya go. This was talked about on /. about three months ago: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=most+piracy+happens+offline

This is completely irrelevant, and AMD does not make low-power x86 chips anymore.

Ahem, please do your homework before spouting bullshit.
Go shill somewhere that doesn't have access to google

Anyone want to suggest any other search engines?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=search+engines

I have a degenerative hearing condition called cochlear otosclerosis which wasn't diagnosed until after I had established myself as a successful airline pilot; a career I loved and was deeply invested in both professionally and personally. I have since retrained and I'm now a certified (degree-carrying) computer science nerd. Unfortunately, not a career path that was even vaguely close to first choice, but it pays the bills.

Having this condition also means there is a not insignificant risk I can pass the genes onto my children. This treatment could provide a cure for myself and a "get out of jail" for my children. I cannot describe how delightfully excited I am about the possibilities in medical science right now!

Way ahead of you.

You are shitting me right? It was published legally in Canada.

Next, you're going to tell me the publishers of Romeo and Juliet are all illegal.

Oh, wait, you mean all the laws are supposed to be compliant to US laws. That is why you guys are so worried about the UN taking over right?

We're not worried about the UN taking over because it isn't going to happen. One person trying to sell copies of another person's book does happen, though. Enjoy: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=amazon+1984+incident

When did he "famously" say that we shouldn't have laws against fraud? Do you have a link?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=alan+greenspan+laws+against+fraud

There were fewer people in any given area, and most people never traveled at all. Thus a given outbreak likely wouldn't spread and could only at most kill the people in a few small farming communities, i.e. a few hundred people at most.

Obviously there are exceptions for outbreaks of various things in cities like London. There are records of those.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=london+disease+history

For everywhere else, records don't really exist because people didn't keep many written records of their dead.

For the specific viruses you list, some of them could be new. Viruses replicate hundreds or thousands of times a year, and thus their rate of mutation is hence faster than that of humans. If beneficial (to the viruses) mutations occur and propagate, then, evolution is also faster. Ebola, for example, either existed for a long time but wasn't able to infect humans with a written history due to the remote nature of the sub-Saharan Africa jungle, or it only evolved the ability to cross infect from other primates to humans in the last 50 years.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ebola+history

There were fewer people in any given area, and most people never traveled at all. Thus a given outbreak likely wouldn't spread and could only at most kill the people in a few small farming communities, i.e. a few hundred people at most.

Obviously there are exceptions for outbreaks of various things in cities like London. There are records of those.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=london+disease+history

For everywhere else, records don't really exist because people didn't keep many written records of their dead.

For the specific viruses you list, some of them could be new. Viruses replicate hundreds or thousands of times a year, and thus their rate of mutation is hence faster than that of humans. If beneficial (to the viruses) mutations occur and propagate, then, evolution is also faster. Ebola, for example, either existed for a long time but wasn't able to infect humans with a written history due to the remote nature of the sub-Saharan Africa jungle, or it only evolved the ability to cross infect from other primates to humans in the last 50 years.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ebola+history

Amazon

Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of any Amazon Service, or to any products or services sold or distributed by Amazon or through Amazon.com will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court

EA

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BY THIS PROVISION, YOU AND EA ARE FOREGOING THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A JURY TRIAL.

Ebay

...Agreement to Arbitrate, which will, with limited exception, require you to submit claims you have against us to binding and final arbitration, unless you opt-out of the Agreement to Arbitrate (see Legal Disputes, Section B ("Agreement to Arbitrate")). Unless you opt-out: (1) you will only be permitted to pursue claims against eBay on an individual basis....

Newegg preferred account.

THIS AGREEMENT REQUIRES THE USE OF ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES

On top of all this I have found generic arbitration clauses and a plethora of companies that are too numerous to count.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=unobtainium

Are you really defending Google abusing FRAND patents by using the justification that Google did not try to get the XBox 360 banned?

Because you know, they fucking did.

I'm impressed by the sheer hypocrisy from the Android fanbois.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+xbox+360+ban

If people did their own research they could decide for themselves.

If people were capable of doing their own research properly there wouldn't be a need for Let me Google that for you .

Even *WITH* solid research people still institutionally do stupid things Homeopathy shouldn't get NHS funding (n.b. the first line of that article links to the proper source, but the article I linked is a bit more readable) and yet it's STILL sort of covered by the NHS.

Sorry, but the reason we have professional researchers who get paid to it is because most people can't.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=network+audio+recorder

#3 I use FileVault2, and I tend to use backups.
#2 There are external batteries you can use. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=macbook+pro+external+batteries
#1 Try buying parts for your HP or Lenovo or whatever laptops. What, you can buy 3rd party stuff...? Gee, I wonder if those 3rd party vendors also make Apple replacement parts... ifixit.com seems to sell spare parts including fans and crap. Wonder where they get it from...

Nobody in their right mind is buying a new $3000 laptop every three years.

What? The average refresh rate is 2-3 years, above that TCO rises. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=using+tco+to+determine+refresh From the Intel study: "For PCs that are older than three years, the cost of maintenance and issue resolution increases such that it is cheaper to purchase a new system." Something like 2/3rds of the desktops and laptops in industry were purchased in the last 2 years. e.g. Google's head of systems gave a talk at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (video) where he stated that they upgrade all hardware every 12 months - and they insist on it even if your system is working fine - because not doing so costs them more than dealing with failures over time.

You mean like this?

This technique is widely used against trolls on various Internet forums. It is often called 'Hellbanning'

I say it's pretty good when Kernel Panics are so infrequent that you can remember each of the system-wide OS failures in over a decade of use.

An issue with selective memory perhaps?

705,000 hits for "Kernel Panic OS X"

No selective memory. On OS X from 10.0.0 to 10.5.8 (I have no Intel Macs) I have PERSONALLY run the following hardware: 350 MHz Slot Load iMac, 300 MHz Clamshell iBook, 500 MHz Dual USB iBook, 1.8 GHz DP G5 tower (what I am writing this post on), and a 1.42 GHz eMac. Out of all of those systems, and all of those versions of OS X, I have received the following KPs:

Once on the iMac, due to the "sketchy scanner driver" I mentioned previously.

Once on the G5 tower (right after I got it and stuffed some badly-spec'ed RAM in it).

Other than that, I can't think of a single time I've PERSONALLY had a KP on either my Macs, or the half dozen or so that I "support" for friends and paying clients.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=darl+mcbride+foreclosure

I say it's pretty good when Kernel Panics are so infrequent that you can remember each of the system-wide OS failures in over a decade of use.

An issue with selective memory perhaps?

705,000 hits for "Kernel Panic OS X"

LMGTFY - two of the top 5 hits point to TightVNC...

I think you miss the point of what the USA is doing here.

I think you are missing lots of points here.

1. Switzerland doesn't want to be subordinated to any other government, either: for about 300 years, they managed to avoid it quite well. But, unlike US, they managed to do it without engaging in rackets ... multiple times, during the history (probably this is how US learnt what happens when sovereignty is surrendered... except I fail to remember when would they been at the receiving end?)

2. it is not unusual for people to desire not to be subordinated to foreign governments (heck, some can't stand even their own). Does it surprise you they don't like US govt, with its pretence of acting as sort of a global government and unchecked power?

3. you mentioned Iran, China and North Korea. Well, it seems to me that citizens on not only those countries would fear US, but its allies as well (or even more?). With such "friends" who the heck need enemies?

I sure hope you aren't an American or living in America. If you are, get the hell out of here

Let me return the advice for you: do as the Swiss people, stay the hell in your country and let the whole world breath free and I won't care if you accept or not whatever international court.

r.e "the VP has what power?"
It matters.
Really.
To put it terms you might relate to, try thinking of it as a Disaster Recovery planning exercise.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=America+cell+tarifs+no+contract+less+than+50+dollars

Sorry, but is this really a Ask Slashdot-worthy story? Better placed to ask on any of a dozen different travel forums, or to raise it in mobile phone forums (of which I hear the kids these days have quite a few).

A quick LMGTFY link to help wrap up the conversation
 

Giving far reaching powers to detain, strip-search and irradiate people to private companies in the hope that they can mount an effective and fool-proof security system to protect things of national importance? What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe those good folks at G4S would take the contract?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=g4s+olympics

GTFO wanker!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=SNES+memory+layout

a political party isn't a government...
go back to school.

Is the govt any better?

(shrug). Can YOU cite a single example where teachers or military or old people or students or some other group said, "Yeah we're okay if you cut our budget 10%." It doesn't exist.

well, yeah.

(shrug). Can YOU cite a single example where teachers or military or old people or students or some other group said, "Yeah we're okay if you cut our budget 10%." It doesn't exist.

well, yeah.

precisely because of the US government's fondness for spying on everything.

Yet again another ridiculous claim without a single reference to support it.

Please point to any credible source that documents the REASON the US "screams" protectionism about data storage. Also please point to one documented incidence of the US "screaming" protectionism with regard to other country's data storage laws.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=American+data+centre+privacy+laws

Source?

here

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ws-*

Google gives me a bunch of .ws domain web sites with that search, but nothing about WS-*.[1] Including -inurl:.ws helps, but only very little.

A search for WS-* oauth returns more relevant results.

Bing (which I don't use as Google usually gives me more useful results) on a search of "ws-*" has "List of web service specifications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" as the fourth result.

Both Bing and Google give useful suggestions in the dropdown when typing "ws-*" into the search box.

[1] Google results will of course vary by user's location.

I have never seen "ws-*" before... reference please?

Ask and ye shall receive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-*

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ws-*

Courtesy of wikipedia and google.

Oh FFS: memristor

What does NAS stand for in this context? The only NAS that I know is Naval Air Station.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=NAS

- They stopped making the Crown Vic, that means 3 child families must use SUVs and Vans.

Or sedans or wagons. Most vehicles I see on the road are four door four seat sedans, but they must not have any where you live.

- Modern cars are often rather small, making them worthless for big trips with young children (try to fit two decent strollers in the trunk of something that isn't a Crown Vic, I dare you).

Try a Subaru Legacy Wagon. My parents have been driving those since '82, and not only can you fit just about anything in them (including a five person family) and on them (including stacks of plywood), they can also pull other vehicles out of the mud or snow. They also have the advantage of being more efficient than SUVs and don't roll over when you make an avoidance maneuver.

- The towing capacity of the average modern car is about 1000 lbs...

Maybe a Prius or Civic. I've used my dad's Subaru to haul cars and fairly large trailers.

- Modern cars have small engines.... SUVs get much better highway mileage (not better than cars, but not all that far away) because they often put an appropriately sized engine in them.

SOME modern cars have small engines. There are plenty of large sedans and sports cars with big engines if that's what you want. Twice the vehicle takes twice the engine and twice the fuel to go the same speed. SUVs get much better highway mileage than what?

- If you like to do your own repair work,...

I do plenty of my own repair work, and it's not really all that hard.

- They quit making station wagons...

There may be fewer full sized wagons to choose from, but there are still plenty. Here's a quick peek: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=2013+station+wagons

- It sucks ass getting a flat in a car on a long trip...

There are many sedans and wagons that come with a full size spare. If you choose to buy one without, there is often room to upgrade to a full.

- Stop using gasoline, use LPG or CNG...

What's that about long road trips? Can't find a place to fill up? Oh well, at least you have a full sized spare tire.

BTW, I'm a breeder with a minivan, a V6 convertible, and a motorcycle. It's pretty darned rare for me to need something else.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=jonathan+pater

Sir, let me google that for you... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dogpile.com